Does social disadvantage over the life-course account for alcohol and tobacco use in Irish people? Birth cohort study

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 594-599

  Das Munshi, Jayati ^a   Leavey, Gerard ^b   Stansfeld, Stephen A ^c   Prince, Martin J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905030579     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckt122     Document Type: Article

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